Job 27:3

All the while my breath is in me,.... So long the oath of God would be upon him, or he bound himself under it:

and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; which signifies the same thing. The breath of…

And the spirit of God is in my nostrils - As long as I live. The “spirit of God” here means the breath that God breathed into man when he created him, Gen 2:7. It would seem probable that there was an…

Job's discourse here is called a parable (mashal), the title of Solomon's proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having authority. It comes from a word…

all the while The sense is rather as given above, according to the parallel passage, 2Sa 1:9. The phrase "my life" in the first clause is lit. my breath. The words are parenthetical, and are thrown in…